Game-tally device.



No. 665,!03. Patented Ian. I, I901.

-r.-m. KAMPEL.

GAME TALLY DEVIEE.

(Application Med Feb. 26, 1900.) (No Model.)

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1 Br fzM ATTORNEYS -l2, respectively, for the several series UNITEDSTATES ATENT OFFICE.

FRANK M. KAMPEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GAM E-TALLY DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent NO. 665,163, dated January1, 1901.

Application filed February 26, 1900. Ya'erial l lo. 6,4592. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK M. KAMPEL, a citizen of Poland, residing atNew York, (Brooklyn,) in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Game-Tally Devices, ofwhich the following is a full and complete specification, such as willenable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

This invention relates to game-tally devices; and the object thereof isto provide a device of this class whereby the score or tally of theseveral games, particularly dice-games, may be readily kept count of.

My invention embodies a plurality of movable bodies each numbered orconfigured to represent a point or points in the game; and the inventionconsists in the construction and arrangement of parts hereinafterspecified.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, inwhich like reference characters denote corresponding parts in bothviews, Figure 1 is a plan view of a game-tally device constructedaccording to my invention; and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section thereof,several of the parts being shown in full lines.

In the practice of my invention I provide a closed casing 8, havingsides 4, ends 5, and a top plate 6, which in the embodiment of myinvention as shown in the drawings and which consists of a tally devicepreferably for dicegames is divided into two sections 6 and 6 each ofwhich is plurally circularly bored at 7, as shown in Fig. 2.

Frictionally slidably mounted in the bores 7 in the sections 6 and 6 arerespectively a plurality of cylindrical bodies 8 and 9, the bodies 8being arranged in ten transverse series of ten each and the bodies 9being arranged in seven transverse series of ten each. Each of thebodies 8 in each of the ten transverse series of the sections (5 bearsupon its uppermost end or face a different numeral or symbol, consistingof the figures 2, 8, 644:)? ((5777 6 6,77 6; 8,77 l9, (10777 (11977counting from left to right of the top plate. The several bodies 9 ofthe several transverse upon their upper ends or faces, bearing nosymbols or characters of any sort whatsoever. Each end 5 of the casingis slotted at 10, and arranged within the casing adjacent each end is ablock 11, to each of which is pivoted at 12 a lever-arm 18, providedwith a fingerpiece 14, which projects through the adjacent slot 10. Theinner end of each of the lever-arms 13 carries a knob or head 15, andloosely mounted upon said knobs or heads and having an areaapproximately equivalent to the area of the top plate 6 is a lifterplate16, having vertical play in the casing, such play being limited by ashoulder 17, formed upon the inner surface of the sides and ends of thecasing. Secured at one end to each of the blocks 11 is a plate-spring18, the free end of each of which bears upon the under surface of theadjacent lever-arm 13, the said springs normally maintaining thelifter-plate 16 in elevated position, as shown in Fig. 2, in whichposition it engages feet or lugs 19, one of which is formed upon thelower surface of each of the bodies 8 and 9, maintaining said bodies inraised position, whereby they project above the top plate 6, as clearlyshown in Fig. 2. The potential of the springs 18 is relatively small,and the friction of the bodies 8 and 9 in the bores '7 is relativelygreat, whereby when one of said bodies is depressed in its bore it willmaintain the lifter-plate 16 in lowered position. The transverse seriesof bodies 8 and 9 form also longitudinal series of said bodies, each ofwhich series contains ten bodies 8 in the section (5, bearing,respectively, the nu m- 2,97 4t 3,77 i 4:777 CC 5,77 C 6,77 (4 8,77 49,77 10,77 11, and 12, and seven bodies 9 in the section 6, the upperfaces of which are plane, and in the progress of the game each playerchooses one of said longitudinal series. As each player throws the dicethe sum of the symbols or spots on the dice, which are usually two innumber, is tallied by depressing one of the bodies 8 in case such sum ismore or less than seven, and in case seven be the total one of thebodies 9 is depressed, each of said bodies 9 standing for one totalseven. According to the rules of the game whichever player first or lastshall in rotation throw sufficient seven combinations to cause intallyseries in the section 6 are preferably plane ing the depression ofall of the bodies 9 in the respective longitudinal series of such playerwins or loses the game. After the game has been ended the finger-pieces14 are depressed, raising the lifter-plate 16 and the bodies 8 and 9,preparing the latter for a new game.

It is manifest that numerous rearrangements of parts and alterations ofconstruction may be made within the scope of my i11- vention adaptingthe same to a plurality of games, and I do not therefore limit myself tothe specific construction and arrangement of parts herein specified.

Having fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. A game-tally device of the class described,comprising a casing provided with a top plate, said top plate beingplurally bored, movable bodies frictionallyslidably mounted in the boresin said top plate, and each bearing a score-symbol, a lifter-platemounted within said casing and arranged to engage and raise said bodies,and levers mounted in said casing and arranged to raise saidlifterplate, said levers being provided with fingerpieces which projectfrom said casing, and

whereby said lifter-plate may be manipulated, substantially as shown anddescribed.

2. A game-tally device of the class described, comprising a casingprovided with a top plate, said top plate being plurally bored, movablebodies frictionally slidably mounted in the bores in said top plate, andeach bearing a score-symbol, alifter-plate mounted within said casingand arranged to engage and raise said bodies, and levers mounted in saidcasing and arranged to raise said lifterplate, said levers beingprovided with fingerpieces which project from said casing, and wherebysaid lifter-plate may be manipulated, and tension devices whereby saidlevers are actuated, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as myinvention I have signed myname, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 23d day ofFebruary, 1900.

FRANK M. KAMPEL.

Witnesses:

F. A. STEWART, V. M. VosLER.

